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2015 in Review: Reading Challenges

Happy New Year’s Eve! 😀 Since I did a post on my 2015 favourites yesterday, I thought I’d write a kind of summary of my various reading challenges today, and take a look at how I did on them – though there weren’t actually all that many… (And the reading year seems pretty much over now, as there’s no way I’m going to be able to finish my current book – Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes – before the end of the day. )

My main challenge was, of course, the Goodreads challenge, where I initially set myself a goal of 60 books (I think), but since I reached that quite early on in the year, I ended up increasing my goal a couple of times afterwards. My final goal was to read 150 books this year, and I’m happy to say that I managed to pass it! 😀 You can see the books I read by clicking on the challenge icon to the right, or you can check out My Year in Books, which is a Goodreads feature that I thought was pretty neat; it also shows the books I read this year, but with some interesting stats added in, and a more aesthetic layout. 🙂

My other big challenge – or rather, series of small challenges – was my reading resolutions, which I made in hopes of widening the range of books that I read, and I managed to complete all these, too! The challenges were:

[NB: For many of these challenges, I actually read more than was required, but I’ve only listed the first ones I read, in order to complete the challenge (e.g. If I challenged myself to read 6 fantasy novels, but actually read 10, then I would have only listed the first 6 that I read this year).]

Classics are always a challenge for me, since (although I usually end up enjoying them) they tend to be pretty dense & slow-paced… Including modern classics in my goal was mostly so I had a back-up option if I really wasn’t feeling up to reading the heavy stuff…

I read Wuthering Heights (after seeing Sons of Pitches cover the song on The Naked Choir… Haha :P). I liked the story but the writing was a bit confusing and one of the characters annoyed me so much! 😛